Join Us: DocNow Viewing Group

On Monday and Tuesday, August 22-23, the Avery Research Center and Special Collections at the Addlestone Library are hosting a viewing group of the DocNow Advisory Board meeting and conference taking place in St. Louis.

DocNow stands for Documenting the Now and is a tool + community developed to respond to the public’s use of social media for chronicling historically significant events as well as demand from scholars, students and archivists seeking a user-friendly means of collecting and preserving ephemeral digital content generated on social media platforms. DocNow was born out of the events that unfolded in Ferguson, MO and the murder of Michael Brown two years ago. Since then, the project has received money from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is being co-hosed by University of Maryland, UC Riverside, and Washington University.